Weaknesses Of Night Snacking

Ever since a young boy, I was known for my crazy eating habits. I had an abnormally large sweet tooth and stomach. There would be days I would eat a whole bag of candy and still have a taste for more sweets. I had a fairly thin physique with some muscle tone. Everybody told me that one day, I’ll become obese and regret all these “bad” decisions; I disregarded every comment and lived by the motto, “ As long as I don’t get fat, I’m fine.”

My actual intake is not what I expected it to be, I never thought I would be eating some of the foods that I am now eating because of this project. This project made me realize how poor my intake was from the first essay. I use to intake some of the unhealthiest food ever, I never realized how much harm I was doing to my body. Now, my intake is fair, I think I’m very much satisfied with the progress and changes I have made in my eating habits. Eating healthy is truly not that bad at all. I had to motivate myself to change my intake tremendously.

I can now return to my old habits without any guilt, except, I do not want to. This project has shown me the power of extremes. I do not want to continue with not eating any sweets, and yet I do not want to ignore what these five days have taught me. I want to find a moderation between the two. I want to compromise by balancing the mental endurance I gained from my

I realized that my food consumption needs to improve, I did not realize I was that bad on my eating schedule but this assignment made me realize just how bad I take care of my health. I need to get better at feeding myself and making time for myself to get a bite to eat in the mornings. There are a lot of days I noticed in my journal that shows I only ate once so that was honestly surprising for

Overall, I really enjoyed doing the behavior modification project this semester. Originally I did not think I was going to be able to take much away from the project since I was not the one who was having a behavior modified, but surprisingly I was able to learn a lot from the project. After a while of watching and observing my partner, Karley, who was the participant in the project, have success with the stress management techniques, I decided to apply some of the techniques to my life as well. Even if it wasn’t part of the project, I still felt I could benefit from the techniques.

One problem behavior I am ambivalent about working on is my late night snacks and eating. Even though I am an active gym member, I still have a problem with eating late at night. I work late until midnight, so I like to eat a snack or sometimes a meal when I get home as I watch a movie before bed. I am able to hold my cravings for foods all day; however, as soon as I get home I will eat anything I crave.

For my 28-day experiential exercise I was determined to renounce sweets and pastries. I have been trying to lose weight for some time, which I have been successful, however I gave up sweets id loose much more weight. I have been able to lose a substantial amount of weight but it has taken me some time. But, because I love sweets, it had become impossible for me to reach my goal. Before starting this experiment, I would say that I was addicted to sweets such as pastries, macarons, milk-shakes, ice creams, and cake.

After accomplishing this behavior change, I also find that there is a big potential ability for me and I believe that if I spend time and work hard, I can get through everything no matter how hard it is. And if I had chance to select a behavior to change, I would do the same thing again because it is full of challenges for me. But I would reduce the time for working or others so that everything can get balance if I continue to keep working on this behavior change. I will try my best to continue this behavior change because it will make my body strong and

Most of the time I am out of control on my eating. I eat the food that I think is more benefit to me, but really it is not. Since I can journal analysis as a guideline of helping me which kind of food I can eat, I will use it to keep on tract what, why, when I can eat. I will keep on continue to go to the gym daily.

I did not try to execute any of the learning strategies we learned in class. Normally I would reward myself by going to eat Wendy’s or by ordering pizza, but as junk food was the object of my behavior modification, I couldn’t use it as a reward. I couldn’t come up with any way to reward or punish myself. Any punishment would be counter-productive: forbidding myself from going to the gym would work directly against the initial purpose. I guess I hoped that the results themselves would good enough of a reward.

Through my behavior change project I have learned many things about myself and life in general. My personal goal was to read two encouraging bible verses every morning. Working towards a goal is not always the easiest thing to do and I have now learned that because I have tried it myself. Although, I did complete my goal it was still hard to work up the motivation to make the effort. I believe through this project some of my views have changed on problem solving and I know that this will help me in the future.

Truly, this activity has taught me a lot about the addiction process. The number one things that it has taught me is how easy it is to relapse and that recovery is an on going process. I am now trying to quit caffeine again, and know that there is a good chance I might relapse again. This can be very frustrating and discouraging for addicts, but sadly it is a reality. Just like they say at AA meeting once an alcoholic always an alcoholic. Also there are a lot of treatment plans that clearly state that addiction isn’t something that can be cured. Like I said I learned a lot, but his is what has stuck with me the most.

The substance I decided to abstain from this semester was sugar. This was not easy. Keeping a journal gave me a place to vent my frustrations and gave me a place to look back on the process. It certainly gave me some insight into the things I was learning in this class. I knew next to nothing about substance abuse counseling before beginning this semester and I had no idea what to expect. I can say with confidence that I think I will be able to be a better school counselor as a result of the process, even if I often hated it.

As of September 7, 2015, I had set myself up with a new drinking habit in which is to substitute sodas for water. In addition, setting a date to fulfill this resolution has been given me the urge to accomplish my goal. I have set my resolution for a month, which ends at the end of October, to see if I was able to maintain this new habit of substituting sodas for water. To make sure that this resolution is working for me, I was able to have my brother, Keng, helped out as my trainer and motivator. He helped with observing, recording, and keeping me on track to keep my mind off sodas. Rules and rewards were used to help and motivated me to meet my goal. In the case of breaking the rules, I was performing twenty push-ups and twenty-five

Yes, I do. I do not take fried snacks in the morning. I avoid snacks like burger, fries at night too.